Hi,I'm Anne-Sophie. I'll be travelling with Justin on the contraption he will hopefully be building soon! It should be a tandem but I don't really know the details as I'm not too interested in the technical aspects, and so I let him in charge.We live in Vancouver, Canada, but I'm originally from France, moving here 10 years ago. I work at ebikes.ca/Grin Technologies, Justin's business, in admin/management but also do freelance graphic design/illustrations included for the magazine Carnets d'Aventures.

My travel experience include touring Croatia, Italy, Corsica and South of France by unicycle (with support vehicle) in 2007, unicycling across Patagonia solo in 2013 (from Ushuaia to Santiago de Chili, 4500km) and mountain unicycling the Alps (from Grenoble/Voiron to Chamonix then Chamonix to Zermatt) in 2016.Justin rode his ebike across Canada in 2007 (7000km.)

I will try to be a liaison between Justin and whatever happens on here since Justin is always involved in too many projects and has a hard time following-up with it all.

May be we can go some track in a small group... I always looking for such possibility. In such a case we can help each other. Only in the case you are not too fast ... I am looking for about 160 km per day in average including stop because of defects which will come for sure. To make the life more easy I use a camping trailer in which I can sleep in. Because of very light construction it should be no hind against the tent solution.

Hi Patrice, Thanks for the kind words. For the data, I don't know. Justin said he needs to come write on the forum but at the same time he has so many priorities, including building our bike?For the March 10-11 weekend, the organizers did indeed talk about Skype but I'm not sure it will be as comprehensive as a video conference (but that would be neat)

Juergen, sorry, I don't think it will really work to ride together. We are going to take a different route via the South: Balkans, Turkey, Iran... and I think we will want to ride more than 160km/day.

Hello everyone and great to see what an enthusiastic and interesting bunch of people will be riding on this solar adventure trip, I'm really looking forwards to meeting and getting to know you in person as time allows. And a huge thank you to the organizers you are able to orchestrate an event of this magnitude involving people from all over the world and showcasing the possibilities of actually practical solar powered travel.

If it's alright I'll be writing in english since that's much faster for me but I have no problem reading and understanding replies in french. Anyways, with less than 4 months to go you would think we would have at least started building our vehicle. Luckily I have some resources at our disposal here that can allow us to pull off this kind of thing in superhuman order.

However, rather than having both people pedaling, the plan is for one or the riders to have a rowing station instead. So it will be a mixed tandem not just in terms of gender but also mixed in terms of propulsion method. This way we'll have the opportunity to mix up the type of exercise a little bit and can take turns rowing or cycling, and will also get to do some training for some of our other planned adventures together in a rowboat.

Apparently the there are only two of those TRICE back to back tandem trikes in the world, but the back to back tandem rowing / cycling bike with solar assist will certainly be one of a kind!

I hope we can arrange a virtual visit like this for sure. I'm going to be spending the next couple days on the forum here posting details about the planned solar logging box and what you can expect from it, and also get your input on some aspects of it too. We'll have several sample units finished and sent to Guillaume to have during the March 10th meeting.